The perpetually licensed type of the desktop Office apps, branded Office 2019, was launched today. It's available currently being a one-time purchase for volume-licensed commercial customers. Confronted by a very release will probably be the next couple weeks.

Office 2019 is supported on Windows 10-exclusively; no Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 support is available-and system most-recent versions of macOS (which can be, today's details 10.14, 10.13, and 10.12).

The newest Office includes updated versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. On Windows, aside from that it includes Publisher, Access, Project, and Visio. These apps, alternatively are all in maintenance mode: they're receiving security fixes but haven't had any feature changes. There's really no 2019 version of Onenote whatsoever; the Windows 10 UWP sort of the app has grown to become the primary version, though Office 2019 customers it's still able to install Onenote 2016 in the event they prefer.

Here are core apps have extra features, but those features aren't as new while they seem; they were available to Office 365 subscribers already. Including, PowerPoint support for 3D models and Excel support for 2D maps is already available in Office ProPlus (the continuously-updated subscription version). Office 2019 represents a set snapshot for this Office 365 release; over 2019's supported lifecycle, this will receive security and stability fixes, nonetheless won't find any further new features.

That supported lifecycle is shorter than a single might expect. Rather than the usual five-years of mainstream support and 5yrs of extended (security) support, Microsoft could possibly be the company-only two years of extended support, for seven years in whole.

Microsoft promises that Office 2019 probably will not be the last-ever perpetually licensed, cloud-free sort of Office. However, the low-key, commercially focused release, in the fact that it's playing catch-up with Office ProPlus, clarifies that it's clear that Office 365 may be the company's big priority as you concentrate.

Nowhere can this be clearer in comparison to the installer. Office 2019 now uses an on-premises type of the Click-to-Run (C2R) installer for ProPlus, instead of traditional MSI package. For ProPlus-using cloud customers, C2R offers convenient features, including streaming-app installs (to find out using the apps before they've fully downloaded) and transparent, automated updating (wipe out Office Service Packs through Windows Update). Office 2019 will buy some of these features; by way of example, it'll be would always apply security patches, but it will surely be able to add a pre-patched version of the applications. The larger difference is that it will be able to use on-premises sources for install files and updates, instead hitting the cloud get, in keeping with the cloud-free positioning for this perpetual license.

During the next weeks, perpetual versions with the Office servers-Exchange Server 2019, Skype for Business Server 2019, SharePoint Server 2019, and Project Server 2019-will also be released, rounding through the on-premises software update cycle.